Yoke of shirts



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEETcE.

HEZEKIAH GRISWOLD, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

YOKE OF SHIRTS.

Specication of Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HEZEKIAH GRIsWoLD, of the city and county of Hartford an.d`State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Form and Style of Yoke for Gentlemens Shirts, thereby securing a better and more perfectly fitting garment than can be obtained by any previous mode; and l do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked therein. l The nature of my invention consists in applying to the upper part of a shirt a compound or .graduated yoke as shown in Figure l, letters a, and b, b, and in Fig. 2 letters a and b, of the accompanying drawings; said compound yoke being composed of two parts or sections, as seen in Figs. 3 and 4L, Fig. 3 being the upper yoke or section thereof, and made with two or more points c, c, c, which points being inserted at d, d, di, of Fig. 4 thereby expand the form of Fig. 4L as 12,313, dated January 30, 1855.

seen in Z), of Fig. 2 graduating the shape of the yoke and shirt to correspond with the form of the body and to npermit the freer motion of the neck, as shown in Fig. l and Fig. 2 giving an easy comfortable fitting garment, not only to the shoulders, but also to the backand neck of the wearer; andA obviating among other things the necessity of putting the top of the bosom in a curved I do no-t claim the insertion of gears upon the shoulders of shirts or other garments that being old but Vhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent as an improvement in shirts, is-

The compound yoke, substantially as, and for the purpose, above set forth and described.

l-IEZEKIAH GRISWOLD.

Witnesses SAML. GRUBB, l/V. S. CLARK. 

